[Prince Caspian]

Amen brother. Preach it! At one time, the future may have been in "plastics" as the line in the movie had it. Today, the future is in innovation. Those that innovate and adapt will survive. Those that don't, or those that do it half-heartedly with a stinking attitude, will shrivel. Those that innovate and adapt more quickly than others and do it with the right attitude, will be wealthy.

[neutrino]

Those that innovate and adapt more quickly than others and do it with the right attitude, will be wealthy.

Really? Innovation as in new ideas and concepts? How interesting that India and China are pursuing this very sort of endeavor. And with 2 billion smart, hard working people between them, they can come up with lots of new ideas.

So when your children are serving their new Chinese, or Indian, masters - remember that your decision helped bring it about.

[kenth]

The future is in innovation.

Could you be a bit more specific?

Jobs are not being lost to obsolescence. They are merely being transfered. We need less regulation and taxation, while doing more than merely "pressing" India and any other country who impose trade imbalances through their own regulation. The idea that we should build up those economies until they get to a point to equal ours to even out trade will do nothing but bleed the country dry. In building their economy up, we are losing some of ours. This sort of thinking usually has conservatives screaming when demonstrated as redistribution of wealth in this country; i.e. welfare, etc.